Groupe de travail en charge des données

Groupe de travail en charge des licences

Groupe de travail en charge des chapitres locaux

Article principal :Foundation/Local Chapters
To establish a framework for federated Local Chapters of the the Foundation where local or special interest groups are able to set up a formal relationship with the Foundation. Federated groups will also be able to represent themselves to other official bodies such as the Government and media organisations [1] This group is currently looking for local OSM leaders.

Groupe de travail en charge des opérations

Deals with issues related to the operation of servers and other related operational matters.

Groupe de travail en charge de l'ingéniérie

Supports the OSM development community and serves as a technical forum for the discussion and resolution of development-related issues.

En construction

Board minutes indicate the founding of a working group for membership services, as a transition from the earlier membership secretary model. Discussion and details Membership Services Working Group

Minutes des conseils

Communications

To contact the board in normal circumstances please email the secretary using secretary@osmfoundation.org.

The full board can be emailed using board@osmfoundation.org. Note that this email alias is not limited to the aforementioned board members, but may also be copied to other parties (currently, Steve Coast and Michael Collinson).

The Officers (Kate, Paul and Frederik) can be emailed using officers@osmfoundation.org

Informations financières

Recettes

Income includes personal financial donations, corporate sponsorship, donations of hardware and bandwidth, foundation membership fees, conference registration fees commission. There is also income from retail affiliation schemes such as Storage Depot, Amazon. Sponsors have included MultiMap, Google, Yahoo, Cloud Made, ITO World. In reality donations from contributors will continue to be needed. The foundation may also be pursuing other Fund Raising Ideas

Income in the 11 months to Aug 30th 2008 was £17,000 and expenditure was £14,000. The main income was from sponsors of the State of the Map conference and registration fees (more)

The foundation intend to publish management accounts on a quarterly basis.

In addition to direct income to the foundation, Multimap has funded Steve Coast directly to spend some of his time working on the project (when?).Digital Pioneers provided funding for mapping parties in the Netherlands which went directly to Stichting Vrijschrift, a Dutch non-profit organisation (when?).

Dépenses

The membership was polled about how the Foundation's income should be spent and we received a mandate to spend 60% of income on hardware, 20% on promotion and 20% on legal matters. Currently, the Foundation's expenditure is mainly on server hardware, although some is spent on activities that promote the project (typically, travel expenses for speaking engagements). So far there have been no reasonable opportunities to spend any funds on legal issues.

Propositions

This is a place for petitions and proposals from OSM contributors for consideration by the Foundation board. Proposals can be raised on this page in this section and should then be discussed and refined before being voted on (again on this page). The Foundation board is not required to act on the vote, but it may influence it's decisions and priorities.

Adhésion automatique à la Fondation OSM pour les utilisateurs établis

Proposition

It has been proposed that membership of the foundation should automatically be given to 'established' OSM contributors[2]. The board have indicated that they would like to know the opinion of the community[3]. A definition of 'established' would need to be devised, however it might be something like 'Have contributed at least X manual change-sets in total, and at least Y manual change-set in each of the past M months and at least T change-sets in total'. If should be noted that the concept of 'established' users may also be useful when countering vandalism.

This proposal is still in draft form. Please feel free to adjust it or comment below.

Please indicate if you support this proposal ('I approve') or don't ('I disagree') below. I suggest all contributors should be eligible to vote, not just foundation members.

Commentaires

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